<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title><![CDATA[Bob Ivry - ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bob Ivry - ]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AOa9SUBlU0k/bob-ivry</link><image><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/feeds/static/images/bloomberg_logo_black.png</url><title>Bob Ivry - </title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AOa9SUBlU0k/bob-ivry</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:49:12 GMT</lastBuildDate><copyright><![CDATA[Copyright 2025 BLOOMBERG L.P. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><atom:link href="https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AOa9SUBlU0k/bob-ivry.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Desperate Small Businesses Await Fresh Aid With or Without Flaws]]></title><description><![CDATA[New round of Paycheck Protection Program funding to focus on smaller companies as owners face ‘dark tunnel.’]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-12-18/desperate-small-businesses-await-fresh-aid-with-or-without-flaws</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-12-18/desperate-small-businesses-await-fresh-aid-with-or-without-flaws</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bob Ivry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 10:00:23 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/icRYgHP1ug1g/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/icRYgHP1ug1g/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Andrew Volk, co-owner of the Portland Hunt + Alpine Club, in Portland, Maine, complained about unwieldy PPP rules.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Covid Plus Decades of Pollution Are a Nasty Combo for Detroit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Have acres of industrial buildup around a Motor City neighborhood left residents especially vulnerable?]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-10-21/covid-pandemic-southwest-detroit-faces-pollution-covid-19-outbreaks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-10-21/covid-pandemic-southwest-detroit-faces-pollution-covid-19-outbreaks</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cynthia Koons]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2020 09:00:50 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iIE5PFhbz8Es/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iIE5PFhbz8Es/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A family plays soccer at Salina Elementary, next to the Dearborn Industrial natural-gas-powered electricity-generating facility.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taking a Knee, Once Career Poison, Now Seen as Good for Business]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last week’s cancellation of sports competition was a watershed event in America.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-09-02/taking-a-knee-once-career-poison-now-seen-as-good-for-business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-09-02/taking-a-knee-once-career-poison-now-seen-as-good-for-business</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bob Ivry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2020 10:00:08 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/izIP8.5y6KQs/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/izIP8.5y6KQs/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>After the WNBA announcement of the postponed games for the evening, the Washington Mystics each wear white T-shirts with seven bullets on the back protesting the shooting of Jacob Blake by Kenosha, Wisconsin police at Feld Entertainment Center on August 26, 2020 in Palmetto, Florida.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Ten Football Loss Could Cost Schools $100 Million Each]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-26/big-ten-football-loss-could-cost-schools-100-million-each</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-26/big-ten-football-loss-could-cost-schools-100-million-each</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bob Ivry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2020 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/idAqwE_72erA/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/idAqwE_72erA/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>INDIANAPOLIS, IN - MARCH 11: Trainers wear rubber gloves as they work in the bench area during the first round of the Big Ten Men&apos;s Basketball Tournament game between the Nebraska Cornhuskers and Indiana Hoosiers at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on March 11, 2020 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Big Ten Conference announced that fans would not be allowed to attend the remainder of the tournament due to concerns over the COVID-19 virus. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fed Vow Boosts Debt Binge as Borrowers Cut Thousands of Jobs]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-05/fed-vow-boosts-debt-binge-while-borrowers-cut-thousands-of-jobs</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-05/fed-vow-boosts-debt-binge-while-borrowers-cut-thousands-of-jobs</guid><category><![CDATA[small-business]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bob Ivry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2020 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iTt51DKWLDs8/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iTt51DKWLDs8/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>An eagle sculpture stands on the facade of the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015. Economists and traders expect the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee to raise interest rates tomorrow for the first time since 2006, marking the beginning of the end for the unprecedented era of easy monetary policy. 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The richest communities in the U.S. continue to get richer. This year, in order to make the top 100, a neighborhood needed an average household income of $220,000 -- up from $209,000 last year. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[For New York, 58-Cent Medical Masks Now Priced at $7.50 Each]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-24/for-new-york-58-cent-medical-masks-now-priced-at-7-50-each</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-24/for-new-york-58-cent-medical-masks-now-priced-at-7-50-each</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bob Ivry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2020 14:09:22 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ielk5pE0TplU/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ielk5pE0TplU/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>In this illustration dated February 26, 2020, protective N-95 face masks lie on a table at an office in Washington, DC.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boom and Bust in the Bakken Oil Fields]]></title><description><![CDATA[The discovery last decade that fossil fuels could be tapped from rock deep beneath the windswept prairies of North Dakota acted like a magnet on American working people. By the thousands they came, from as far as Texas and California, fortune-seekers in a modern-day Gold Rush. Photographs by Daniel Acker and Matthew Staver]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/photo-essays/2015-11-30/boom-and-bust-in-the-bakken-oil-fields</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/photo-essays/2015-11-30/boom-and-bust-in-the-bakken-oil-fields</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2015 00:01:12 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i8.W2H1lUuK4/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i8.W2H1lUuK4/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Traffic generated by an oil boom lines the main street in Watford City, North Dakota, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011. Oil production in the state has tripled in five years, attracting the likes of Exxon Mobil Corp., and Norway&apos;s Statoil ASA, which agreed this week to pay $4.5 billion for Brigham Exploration Co., one of the companies that figured out how tap dense rock that the U.S. Geological Survey has estimated may contain 4.3 billion barrels of oil. The productive Bakken formation stretches from South Dakota into Canada&apos;s province of Saskatchewan. Photographer: Matthew Staver/Bloomberg</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[With 61 Seconds in a Minute, Markets Brace for Trouble]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-28/with-61-seconds-in-a-minute-markets-brace-for-trouble</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-28/with-61-seconds-in-a-minute-markets-brace-for-trouble</guid><category><![CDATA[technology]]></category><category><![CDATA[science-energy]]></category><category><![CDATA[industries]]></category><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2015 23:00:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunt’s Death Revives Memory of Billions Lost on Silver Wager]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-10-23/hunt-s-death-revives-memory-of-fortune-lost-on-silver-bet</link><guid 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Funded]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-07/complacency-breeds-2-trillion-of-junk-as-sewage-funded</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-07/complacency-breeds-2-trillion-of-junk-as-sewage-funded</guid><category><![CDATA[industries]]></category><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2014 17:50:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dying Memphis Neighborhood Foretells Next U.S. Crisis: Mortgages]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-21/dying-memphis-neighborhood-foretells-next-u-s-crisis-mortgages</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-21/dying-memphis-neighborhood-foretells-next-u-s-crisis-mortgages</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2014 04:00:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forex Market Investigation: Collusion in the Chat Rooms?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Investigators look for signs of cheating in the currency market]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-01-02/foreign-exchange-traders-may-have-used-chat-rooms-to-rig-market</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-01-02/foreign-exchange-traders-may-have-used-chat-rooms-to-rig-market</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><category><![CDATA[businessweek-magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Liam Vaughan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2014 20:57:00 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ipY7fbnkXYJQ/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ipY7fbnkXYJQ/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Regulators look for signs of cheating in the currency market</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day JFK Died We Traded Through Tears as NYSE Shut]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-11-22/day-jfk-died-we-traded-through-tears-as-nyse-shut-after-selloff</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-11-22/day-jfk-died-we-traded-through-tears-as-nyse-shut-after-selloff</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2013 05:00:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fed Reexamines Banks' Ties to Commodity Markets]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Fed reconsiders rules that expanded Wall Street’s reach]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-25/the-fed-reexamines-banks-ties-to-commodity-markets</link><guid 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(Photograph by J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wall Street Commodity Trading in Jeopardy Amid Fed Review]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-22/wall-street-commodity-trading-in-jeopardy-amid-fed-review</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-22/wall-street-commodity-trading-in-jeopardy-amid-fed-review</guid><category><![CDATA[industries]]></category><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 09:28:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fed Reviews Rule on Big Banks’ Commodity Trades After Complaints]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-20/fed-reviews-rule-on-big-banks-commodity-trades-after-complaints</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-20/fed-reviews-rule-on-big-banks-commodity-trades-after-complaints</guid><category><![CDATA[industries]]></category><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2013 01:38:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fed Re-examines 2003 Approval of Banks’ Commodities Trading]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-20/fed-reviewing-2003-decision-on-banks-commodities-activities</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-20/fed-reviewing-2003-decision-on-banks-commodities-activities</guid><category><![CDATA[industries]]></category><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2013 03:18:25 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>